metastatic
/mɛtəˈstætɪk/adjective
metastatic is spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is metastastic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 167 of all searches for the word. Metastatic is an adjective meaning “Relating to, or producing metastasis”.
How many letters and syllables are in metastatic?
| Letters | 10: M-E-T-A-S-T-A-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, metastastic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell metastatic?
Metastatic is spelled M-E-T-A-S-T-A-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 168 of the searches for metastatic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is metastatic?
Metastatic appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce metastatic?
- /mɛtəˈstætɪk/
Metastatic has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-metastatic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does metastatic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to, or producing metastasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Metastatic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to metastasis:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | métastatique |
| Portuguese | metastático |
| Spanish | metastático |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does metastatic come from?
From French métastatique, from méta- + statique, as an adjective corresponding to métastase (“metastasis”), perhaps after Koine Greek μεταστατικός (metastatikós). By surface analysis, meta- + static.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).